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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential by McMaster University

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About the Course

Mindshift is designed to help boost your career and life in today’s fast-paced learning environment. Whatever your age or stage, Mindshift teaches you essentials such as how to get the most out of online learning and MOOCs, how to seek out and work with mentors, the secrets to avoiding career ruts (and catastrophes) and general ruts in life, and insights such as the value of selective ignorance over general competence. We’ll provide practical insights from science about how to learn and change effectively even in maturity, and we’ll build on what you already know to take your life’s learning in fantastic new directions. This course is designed to show you how to look at what you’re learning, and your place in what’s unfolding in the society around you, so you can be what you want to be, given the real world constraints that life puts on us all. You’ll see that by using certain mental tools and insights, you can learn and do more—far more—than you might have ever dreamed! This course can be taken independent of, concurrent with, or subsequent to, its companion course, Learning How to Learn. (Mindshift is more career focused, and Learning How to Learn is more learning focused.)...

Top reviews

RD

May 17, 2025

I just want to say thank you for opening my eyes to things that I didn’t know. If I can forget everything that I learned, I will not forget about how to control myself feelings when situations arise.

MP

Aug 27, 2020

Excellent MOOC. Has some very useful tips and also breaks the myth that one cant study after a particular age.In fact, after doing this, I feel learning is a life long process and the sky is the limit

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By Thit N

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Oct 8, 2022

Everybody should take this course

By Nada S

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Sep 1, 2022

breakthrough to my way of thinking

By Ewa T

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Apr 11, 2022

Great intellectual entertainment!

By Bhumika J

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Sep 10, 2021

THE BEST WAY TO LEARN HOW TO LEARN

By Adriana E N M

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Aug 23, 2021

Very informative and entertaining

By Niharika T

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Oct 30, 2020

Very nice and explained very well.

By Maricruz R

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Jun 16, 2020

Thank you! I have learned so much!

By Haris F A

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May 29, 2020

New Perspective about how to learn

By Jona T

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May 28, 2020

It was great! I really enjoyed it!

By Md. R N B

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May 24, 2020

A good course with good instructor

By Svetlana L

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Apr 30, 2020

Barbara Oakley's moocs are amazing

By Nataliya

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Apr 11, 2020

Great teacher, easy to learn, fun!

By ravi m

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Oct 16, 2019

Transformational,Practical,concise

By Ruth C

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Apr 9, 2018

Great course! Highly recommendable

By Sasikumar C

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Mar 2, 2018

Very nice course. Very informative

By Karin S

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Jan 18, 2018

Great Course. Thank you very much.

By Irene

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Oct 10, 2017

Very good lecture and Help a lot!!

By Abeda M Y P

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Apr 11, 2022

Thank you for this helpful course

By Bim Z

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Sep 13, 2021

Everyone should take this course

By karan c

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Sep 25, 2020

great course and very informative

By ARLENE D C M

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Aug 26, 2020

It's very helpful and insightful.

By Xer G

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Jul 20, 2020

A great one. Not a waste of time.

By Maddie O

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Jul 7, 2020

Thoughtful and very well crafted.

By Mithun K G

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Jun 4, 2020

Great course to learn new things.